Edwin Rubis: Going Hard Against the Grain

Oldtimer1 (Ot1) is a lifelong collector, grower, breeder, and preservationist of cannabis genetics from around the world. Since the 1960s Oldtimer1 has dedicated his life to collecting, preserving, and sharing knowledge about cannabis. As a breeder, he is best known for his work preserving unique traditional equatorial varieties.  Based in the UK, Oldtimer1 has been […]

In an announcement earlier this year that seems to have flown under the radar a bit, Dark Heart Nursery revealed that they had discovered the presence of Hop Latent Viroid at 90% of the licensed cannabis cultivation facilities that they visited in California. From August 2018 through July 0f 2021, the team at Dark Heart […]

Another celebrity brand has hit the market, and this time it’s Peaches crooner, Justin Bieber. The cannabis community has had mixed reviews about it. On the one hand, some find it dope that a mainstream star like the Biebs is stepping into the world of weed! But for others, it feels like another celebrity name […]

Dear Custy, that “top shelf” indoor you just bought was grown in a greenhouse. So, technically, it was “indoors”, I suppose. The old trifecta of Indoor, Greenhouse, and Outdoor cannabis has been blurred by advancements in both light deprivation knowledge and tech as well as light-assisted greenhouse cultivation methods, both of which can produce multiple […]

Last week I wrote: Can “Corporate” Cannabis Coexist with “Legacy,” or “Traditional” Cannabis? (Part I) This is Part 2, and the conclusion. Is Corporate Cannabis worse than prohibition? No… However, we’ve come too far and fought too hard to give in and allow Chad and Thad or anti-cannabis lawmakers to try to run stuff, set up […]

Let’s take a trip down memory lane. Back around a decade ago to the very primitive days of California’s Prop215 medical cannabis era. When you could walk in a shop, flash a paper doctor’s rec and be back in the budroom in a matter of minutes. Back when they’d pop those massive jars open and […]

Last week Vice ran a headline that read: Psychedelics Are a Billion-Dollar Business, and No One Can Agree Who Should Control It We fixed it a bit: Anyone who has watched the corporatization of cannabis over a really short period of time is likely feeling a bit cringy at the sudden rush of investors, lawyers, […]